So are you in charge of your money or is your money in charge of you? Are you in debt; are you taking positive actions to move forward?

Do you only react or respond to money issues when you can no longer put off the fact that your money relationship is  out of control and if you do not fix it you will ‘go down the drain hole’?  Are your credit cards out of control? Do you only take time to have  a relationship with your money when it is close to ‘disaster’? Do you keep repeating this pattern?

Do you try to grow your money? Do you plan in advance; do you have a budget; do you look after your financial records, are your finances under control and are they blossoming? Have you made the choice to take control of your money and have you stuck to the choices you have made? Your first decision is having the intention to take action to manage and grow your money no matter how little or how much you have.

You may need firstly to get out of debt; to do this you will need to assess your expenditure and if it greater than your income you need to decide what steps you can take to either increase your income or decrease your expenditure.

The power of intention is when you decide and make the choice to take the steps to be in charge of your financial wellbeing. You will need to support yourself every day until you change a pattern of behaviour that may have been with you and your family of origin for your whole life. You can do it; it is about choice and action; it is about commitment; hard work; perseverance; making finances a priority in your life; good habits and believing you deserve to create financial freedom and abundance. You may need professional help to start the process; you will need intention and action to complete the process and get your financial situation working for you and not against you.

Christina McMahon

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To start to change your life and relationship to money; survival or wealth you firstly need to have the intention to take charge of your financial well being. If you are in debt you need to get out of debt! If you are in serious debt you may need help. (One organisationt that will help is CAPS 1300227000) Is your expeniture greater than your income? What steps are you going to take to increase your income and reduce your expenditure? You cannot survive on credit cards and do well financially in life.

The power of intention is the first step; you decide and make a choice to take steps to support yourself and improve your financial situation. You stay positive; stop blaming everyone else; and decide you are going to change a pattern of behaviour and skill that may have been with you for your whole life. You can do it; you do have a choice; it is about commitment; hard work; perserverence; making finances a priority in your life; developing good habits and believing you do deserve to create financial wellbeing.

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/07/04/3260466.htm

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It is estimated at least 30,000 children in Australia have an autism spectrum disorder.
Helping or educating an autistic child can be difficult as support services are rare and expensive.
A new model, known as the Self Advocacy Curriculum, is being adopted in American schools to help children with autism help themselves.
Valerie Paradiz, whose autistic son first started primary school in New York in 1994, says he had a difficult time communicating and interacting with other people.
“I saw that teachers really struggled, although they seemed in part to understand that there were these components of children needing to really identify what their own disability required of them in terms of navigating environment,” she said.
Ms Paradiz, a university professor, left academia soon after that and started an after-hours school to help students on the autism spectrum.
A few years later she developed the Self Advocacy Curriculum.
“To help teachers and therapists and parents to learn how to develop ability in advocating for oneself,” she said.
“That ability can range from understanding your civil rights and entitlements to understanding what kinds of sensory or social differences you might have.”…
She designed the program to help them speak up.
“It could be as easy as asking ‘can I turn the lights off?’,” she said.
The curriculum was soon piloted in public schools across New York.
…. The results, she said, were groundbreaking.
“What it is showing is not only can our children recognise their needs but they can advocate to have those needs met and they can take these skills and use them in an environment in which they have not been directly taught to use them,” she said.
“A huge challenge for individuals with autism is that they use interventions or strategies only in the environment that they were taught them.”…
Kara Potter is the director of The Learning Ways group, a not-for profit after-schools program set up to help children on the autism spectrum.
For the past year she has been testing the curriculum out on a small group and agrees the results are impressive.
“We saw some very significant changes in the sense of wellbeing that the children were expressing after being part of the work that we did with them,” she said.
“In particular we saw children being able to start to discriminate and make decisions for themselves.”
Currently, intervention programs in Australia are limited and none of them are coordinated nationally.

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